Steering Task Force

TEAM MEMBERS

The Florida Performing Fine Arts Assessment project involves approximately 150 performing arts teachers, supervisors, administrators and university faculty as members of the Steering Task Force, Leadership Team, and item writers and reviewers. In addition, our partners include the Florida Dance Education Association, the Florida Music Educators' Association and the Florida Association for Theatre Education.

AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH

American Institutes for Research (AIR) provides the project with valuable assessment expertise, quality training and systematic item management. To find out more information about the educational assessment services AIR provides, please go to http://www.air.org/focus-area/educational-assessment/

Task Force Members

The Steering Task Force is comprised of School District Performing Fine Arts Supervisors, content area teacher/administrator specialists, and component organization leaders.

Leadership Team

Name	Role	Position School
Dr. Steve Kelly	Content Assessment Consultant	Professor Florida State University
Dr. David Williams	Creating Assessment Consultant	Professor University of South Florida
Prof. James Oliverio	Item Media Management Consultant	Professor and Director Digital Worlds Institute University of Florida
June Zack	Assessment Consultant	Managing Director of Test Development American Institutes for Research
Elizabeth Greenberg	Assessment Consultant	Principal Research Analyst American Institutes for Research
Dorothy Millwater	Assessment Consultant	Project Director – FL Hard-to-Measure American Institutes for Research
Sue Dempewolf	Assessment Consultant	Assessment Specialist American Institutes for Research
Tracey Lewis	Assessment Consultant	Florida Help Desk American Institutes for Research
Dr. Kathleen Sanz	FMEA	Executive Director Florida Music Educators’ Association
Beth Cummings	Project Administrator	Acting Director, Fine Arts Polk County School Board
Mary Grace Gordon	Project Manager Grants Management Consultant	Project Manager FL Performing Fine Arts Assessment

Project Support

Name	Organization	Position
Alissa Hardy	POLK	Project Administrative Coordinator
Don West	POLK	Project Resource Teacher
Richard Brown	FMEA	Project Liaison
Josh Bula	FMEA	Web Developer
Stacy Mallard	POLK	Clerk

Partner Organizations

NOTE: This information was developed under a grant from the U. S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U. S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.